In a bizarre act, policemen deployed at a Srinagar hospital to watch over Syed Ali Shah Geelani have walked out on the separatist leader who was earlier informed by a senior police officer that he was a free man now.

Violence on Tuesday erupted in Srinagar and Budgam districts of the Kashmir Valley where protestors clashed with security forces who opened fire leaving a youth dead and five others injured.

The Kashmir Valley continues to simmer and the body count keeps rising: four more persons, including a teenaged girl, were killed in fresh incidents of police firing to quell protests on Sunday, while

Chief minister Omar Abdullah on Sunday evening admitted that neither he nor his government can control the situation “single-handedly” and made a fervent appeal to the civil society, political leaders

Violence in the Valley continued on Sunday as four people were killed in a fresh round of police firings. The doctors said they were also treating ten persons with gunshot wounds.

Violence hit Budgam district on Monday where protestors set afire two government offices and a railway shed as curfew remained clamped in the entire Kashmir Valley.

Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Omar Abdullah on Saturday held a series of meetings with his Cabinet colleagues and various government functionaries and officials of the police and Central security forces to review the deteriorating law and order situation across the Valley.

An alliance of Kashmiri Sikh outfits has condemned the “excessive” use of force against the Muslim protesters “barbaric and inhumane killings” in the hands of security forces in the Valley and asked the chief minister Omar Abdullah to take moral responsibility and step down. It also called for imposition of governor’s rule in the state to end the turmoil.

Witnesses said that soon after the bodies of the two persons killed in Friday’s CRPF firing near Amargarh railway station arrived in Sopore late on Friday night, irate crowds again relocated to the railway station and torched a residential quarter. On Saturday morning, the protests swelled with thousands more joining them; they set ablaze the railway station and other property, including the personal belongings of Railway Protection Force personnel who had already fled.

One person was killed and 15 others, including 13 policemen, were injured in clashes between protesters and security forces which opened fire in Pampore area in the outskirts of the city on Sunday.